Vulnerability Scanning Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Vulnerability Scanning
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £510 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Vulnerability Scanning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 770 559 1,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.56% 87.76% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 347 658
10th Percentile £288 £300 £309
25th Percentile £400 £386 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.13 £11.11
25th Percentile £14.44 £17.08 £12.53
Median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £16.11
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +101.74% -32.17%
75th Percentile £28.19 £41.50 £24.77
90th Percentile £81.13 £99.32 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +25.75% +14.29% +25.00%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vulnerability Scanning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Scanning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability Scanning
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Scanning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability Scanning
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds - 5 £520 - 4
Huddersfield - 1 £500 -
Vulnerability Scanning
Yorkshire

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) OCI
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Apigee
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Information Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JWT
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) API Design
4 1 (16.67%) API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (50.00%) GCIA
1 3 (50.00%) GCIH
1 3 (50.00%) GIAC
1 3 (50.00%) SSCP
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) NIST 800
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk